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Show -"c tilbcats ind coyotes are, . mLEB IN OUTSKIRTS OF SALT LAKE would no doubt imagine .that some crazy person had been running around barefooted In the snow, and their greatest great-est wonder would be at his having such broad feet. A. Glenn was in town yesterday and got the bounty on seven coyotes he had trapped and shot Just a iew miles east from the very heart of this city. He was seen by a great many persons carrying car-rying the pelts up Main street to dis- i pose of them, but very few of those j Imagined for one instant that those same little animals when life was theirs had prowled about their places watching watch-ing an opportunity to get away with a chicken or mayhap even looking from behind the cover of a Bhrub at their little babes at play. Mr. Glenn says he has killed twenty coyotes bo far this winter and that the hills east of here are literally full of them. And it is Just as George McNeil, the old hunter, said when he came in a little lit-tle before to get the bounty on four coyotes that he had killed recently. "Why, yes, people right in the out skirts of the city miss things all the time but they don't know where they go to. They wouldn't believe you If you told them there were wildcats and coyotes coy-otes around their places every night. But I killed, one of those coyotes right there Just the other day up here at Capitol Cap-itol hill, and the other three I got this side of Ensign peak. City Creek canyon Is full of them and I killed two wildcats wild-cats up there a few days ago." He also said he had the skins of nine more coyotes tacked up to dry; they were too green to bring in yet. George is well known in the County Clerk's office, of-fice, where bounty warrants are issued to him often for animals killed right around the city. And 'George, who is an experienced hunter and trapper, makes a pretty good thing out of it. After getting the bounty on a skin he doesn't sell it for a dollar or less, the j usual price, but he buys some yellow glass eyes, a little plaster of paris and some felt cloth and mounts them up as you "see them displayed in furriers' stores. Hunters Bring in Pelts to Collect Bounty; Animals Ani-mals Prowl About the Ileijnerys at Night. "Where Ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Nevertheless when a danger dan-ger Is lurking about a person or a city, It is. only fair that a warning should be given In .time, that steps may be taken to guard against the evil that threatens. threat-ens. . Hold-ups are not the only thing to . fear at night, and if a wildcat should pounce upon your back from the limb " of a tree or If a large coyote should flart'up behind you from around a corner cor-ner and hamstring you as you grop along the streets In the darkness, preferring pre-ferring to walk than to ride oh a Salt Lake street car be not surprised, for you are warned that these animals are not strangers to this city. V Some there are who remember that seventy lambs were killed in one right, last spring, on a ranch near Ensign peak. Since then these preying animals ani-mals have been back in the mountains, but now the beautiful, treacherous, IcUlt. ... j . , . . im.c snow ib several xeet aeep tr.ere, and the animals of those wilder haunts hav been driven to the valleys. j It is not an unusual thing to see deer , feeling about in the foothills at Fort Douglas. The coyote is not such a large nimal and being possessed of the keenest keen-est cunning, they are not often sen, but. nevertheless they are right in Salt . Lake City. They kope out of sight in the day time, but at night they have little to fear and make profitable use of their time.i CuC course, the coyote is considered a rowardly little animal, but when brav-ry brav-ry is inspired by hunger, they will at. tack a man, or relying upon strength in numbers, they sometimes display a courage that is daunted by nothing, and they will die fighting with their last breath. . When a man, living in the suburbs of the city, gets up in the morning to find some of his chickens, geese or turkeys tur-keys missing he never for tin Instant Imagines that a coyote has been upon his premises, tout lays the theft to some - ; thief in trousers and shirt. Mr. Coyote Coy-ote always leaves a clue behind, but his . dupes are not versed In the lore of na-- na-- ture, and are unable to distinguish his tracks In the snow from those of the dog, and. do not notice. them at all. These same people. ifhey were to see bear tracks all around their houses, |